I've been doing anime marthon this week, and some I watched because of the manga I read earlier. I couldn't find my favorite manga being anime, so I choose the second one. BOKURA GA ITA. I love the manga - yeah I read it online... because I couldn't find it here. So Anyway this is my review of the series.

The Plot :

The story evolve around three character, Takahashi Nanami, Motoharu Yano and Masafumi Takeuchi. Nanami was a new student in her first year of highschool, there he met Yano, A classmate, whom she met accidently. Instantly She falls for her, and in no time confessed her feelings. But Yano was still in memory of his dead girlfriend, but later found out, that nanami's persistent really tug his hear, so then finally he asked her to be his girlfriend. But the buried feeling of his past girlfriend, and constant insecurities that nanami felt when she was with yano increases as she observed how close Yano relationship with Yamamoto Yuri ( sister of Yano's dead girlfriend) was, so she ask him what's his relationship with Yamamoto. And everytime, Nanami only got a brushed off attitude towards her question, there's Masafumi Takeuchi, who is Yano's best friend, who is constantly sooth her feeling whenever she felt down with Yano, in time Takeuchi confess his feeling during Nanami and Yano's break up.




The Characther (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Were_There_%28manga%29)  


notice that I took the character from the manga, but the ending was finish in the manga, not in the anime

• Nanami "Nana" Takahashi (高橋 七美, Takahashi Nanami^?), the series protagonist, is a high school girl who falls in love with the popular Yano Motoharu. They struggle with issues of trusting one another as the shadow of Yano's dead girlfriend, who was with another guy at the time she died, looms over them. In the manga, eventually Yano's inability to let go and her inability to focus on the future rather than the past lead to their breaking up. She eventually begins dating Take, but is unable to forget Yano completely. When Take proposes, she rejects him, then begins searching for Yano after meeting one of his coworkers and learning where he is. In the anime adaptation, she is voiced by Nozomi Sasaki.

• Motoharu Yano (矢野 元晴, Yano Motoharu^?) is a popular high school boy whose girlfriend, Nana, was killed in a car crash while out with another guy. He has a hard time trusting Nanami, and displays jealousy and possessiveness, to the point of physically abusing her. As the series progresses, he wrestles with his feelings for his dead girlfriend versus those for the living Nanami, whom he even calls "Nana-chan" at times. Yano moves to Tokyo with his mom, but after half a year he stops contacting Nanami, effectively breaking up with her. Eventually it is revealed that his mother killed herself, after which he disappeared. He reappears four years later, living with Yamamoto but still remembering Nanami. In the anime adaptation, he is voiced by Hiroshi Yazaki.

• Masafumi "Take" Takeuchi (竹内 匡史, Takeuchi Masafumi^?) is Yano's close friend and becomes a friend and confidant for Nanami after she begins dating Yano. As the series progresses, he finds himself falling in love with her, leaving him unsure how to proceed. When Yano breaks up with Nanami, they begin dating. He eventually proposes, but she turns him down. In the anime adaptation, he is voiced by Takuji Kawakubo.

• Yuri Yamamoto (山本 有里, Yamamoto Yuri^?) is the younger sister of Nana, Yano's late girlfriend. She had a crush on Yano even while he was dating her sister. A week after Nana's death, Yano had sex with her. She originally believed he was simply using her, but later suspects he was pitying her. After Yano begins dating Nanami, she becomes an obstacle for their relationship as Yano continues displaying some closeness with her. In the anime adaptation, she is voiced by Erina Nakayama.

What I think :

I so loved the manga, but then I watched the 25 episodes of the animes, the first 10 was quite good and kawaii, but as the plot goes, I find it reallllllllyyyyy boring. How Nanami showed her insecurities and cries all the time, I mean please. Plus why is it that the side charachter never gets the girl. It was such a shame, becos after 20 episode, my vote Goes for Takeuchi, not Yano. But the good thing about the anime was the song. It full of cool song and was good.

Rate :
3/5

 

Cast :
Mao Inoue, Masaki Okada

What’s the movie about :

Takuma, a boy who is told he will die before he’s 20, and Mayu, a girl who is in love with him…
The story begins when they are little kids. Mayu, whose father is a doctor, meets Takuma, who is hospitalized in her father’s workplace. They develop feelings for each other, but Mayu learns of Takuma’s grave illness and that he will die before he turns 20. The distraught children make one promise for an uncertain future.
Time passes, and the girl becomes a young woman, and the boy, a young man. Mayu continues to support and love Takuma. On the other hand, Takuma, who knows his days are numbered, pushes away his feelings for Mayu and distances himself from her. He cannot stand to see her cry or hurt her more than he already has. Then Mayu meets another man who has feelings for her, and Takuma meets a woman who has the same illness, and their feelings for each other begin to waver.
Misunderstandings, unsaid thoughts, the frustrations and chagrin of youth… What will become of their love while the clock keeps ticking away in Takuma’s life?

What I think :

First of all I have to tell you guys, that I love the manga. The book was full of romance, exactly my type.
And on this movie, it has a lot of tear jerking moment when they used to be a little children, and romance as they grow up. The actors who play the character was really believable and lovable. I love Inoue Mao on Boys before Flower Japannese version, and Masaki Okada really picture Takuma as a positive person who really wanted to love his childhood sweetheart.
The chemistry is totally there, and some parts theres also funny moments. But what I love about this movie was that it not really side away from the manga. And I recommend you guys to see it ASAP. You can checked it on www.dramacrazy.net. Hope you guys like it as much as I do

Rate :
5/5 ….. nuff said

Early this year, I put some movies that I really wanna see, like, Harry Potter, The Bounty, Knight and Day, Letter to Juliet, Kites, etc, and here are my Review or mostly what I think about them.

1. The Bounty Hunter